New Public Spaces - Dissensual Political and Artistic Practices in the Post-Yugoslav Context

This book draws its inspiration from encounters and conversations with activists, artists, critical thinkers, curators, militant researchers and writers. Those encounters challenged not only the distinction between ‘serious’ discussions and ‘informal’ debates – that instantly reproduce linear time and hierarchical space – but also our mutual ability to listen, talk and share experiences. In the first part, engaged collectives reflect on the organisation of different political issues: from anti-capitalist and student struggles, to immigrant workers and the re-appropriation of public spaces in the region. The second part focuses on specific art collectives from Kosovo and Ljubljana, which are occupied with the question of space: why was space so important when rethinking the relation between art and politics, and also what can one do with the space? The book concludes with a presentation of art projects that intervened and articulated spatial and visual transformations in the post-Yugoslav context.